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Type Around feature is missing aria tags to be read properly by screen-readers
📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)
Based on support ticket np. 75352. Accessibility concern on SVG icons. The svg icons that are used in buttons should have an alt or aria-label or role tag(s) to be AA compliment.
✔️ Expected result
Names of buttons for Type Around feature should be discoverable by screen readers.
❌ Actual result
Names of buttons for Type Around feature are not discoverable by screen readers.
❓ Possible solution
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- Browser: Any
- OS: Any
- First affected CKEditor version: N/A
- Installed CKEditor plugins: widget
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Is it possible to increase the priority of this issue? Our application fails the ADA compliance scan, which is mandatory by the US Law. Please provide the estimated date when this issue will be addressed.
Hi, I wanted to follow up on this... Could you provide the release version which will include the ADA fixes?
I can confirm that labels are missing for the buttons. However, these buttons aren't focusable via keyboard. Probably the better solution would be to:
- hide these buttons completely from screen readers using
[aria-hidden=true], - add a description (via
[aria-describedby]) to a whole widget with information that the user can type around it by pressing Enter or Shift+Enter.
Just for the record, note that the WidgetTypeAround plugin can be disabled - which turns off the possibility to use type around.
We need to make sure that information about possible type around is removed if the feature is disabled.
